Oh, can't you see, tabs belong to me, my poor heart aches with every link that breaks ...
This video sums it up perfectly.
— Pat Adams (@PatAdams96) February 26, 2026
President Trump and Republicans in Congress are for American citizens.
Democrats in Congress are for illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/OHZ4t7zgOK
Ed: This ad should run every day for the next eight months. The RNC and every Republican candidate should make it a cornerstone of their midterm media strategies. They can alternate between this and the upcoming "How do you not stand?" reaction ad on crime.
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WSJ: Yet some of Epstein’s deepest ties were with America’s most distinguished academics, cultivated over years through financial support, shared interests and hospitality at his glittering properties.
Those relationships are now imploding careers at elite universities as millions of Epstein-related documents released by the Justice Department show how the late sex offender stretched his tentacles deep into academia.
Just this week, Richard Axel, a Nobel laureate Columbia professor, and Lawrence Summers, the decorated economist and former Harvard president, stepped down from positions at their institutions because of their Epstein ties.
Ed: As I wrote earlier, Epstein aspired to the embrace of the progressive-elite clique in every sphere – politics, global economy, Hollywood, and Academia. It's not exactly a surprise that the scalps claimed by the release of the Epstein Files come almost entirely from the pontificating Left.
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🚨 JUST IN: Under oath, Hillary Clinton says she does NOT have any info on Epstein, and also doesn’t believe she EVER met him
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2026
She never met him, but Bill flew with Epstein on his plane at least 27 TIMES??!
If true, that makes Bill even MORE suspicious.
pic.twitter.com/X4NWodgFSZ
Ed: "Recalls" does some heavy lifting here. The money trail goes right to the Clinton Global Initiative, but also, Bill rode the Lolita Express enough times to question Hillary's recollections. And let's not forget that Epstein isn't the only pervert in question ...
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Associated Press: “Like every decent person,” Hillary Clinton added in her opening statement, “I have been horrified by what we have learned about their crimes.”
She has previously said that her husband flew with Epstein for charitable trips but that she did not recall ever meeting Epstein. She had also interacted with Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and confidant, at conferences hosted by the Clinton Foundation.
Maxwell, a British socialite, also attended the 2010 wedding of their daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
Ed: Maxwell trafficked underage girls to Epstein. She's serving twenty years in federal prison for those crimes. Hillary doesn't get a pass just for not recalling a meeting with Epstein. And as it turns out ...
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Hillary Clinton: “I don’t recall ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein.”
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) February 26, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein: “Hillary Clinton is much prettier in person.” pic.twitter.com/3P8JNNKdZp
Ed: That was from someone else [redacted] to Epstein, it appears, not from Epstein himself. However, it does appear to be part of a discussion about a meeting with Hillary.
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Noah Rothman at NRO: To summarize, the Democratic Party should not hammer Trump relentlessly with criticisms of his record on economics, which polling indicates is almost every voter’s foremost concern and Trump’s biggest political vulnerability. Rather, it should mute the economic message and emphasize the very “racial justice” themes that had become a millstone around the Democratic Party’s neck by 2024.
This isn’t a strategy memo. It’s a shot across the Democratic Party’s bow. The extortion racket that sprouted up around DEI has been starved of funds. Corporations sloughed off DEI’s shackles even before the federal government closed the spigot that once funneled taxpayer dollars from the Treasury into the progressive consultancy’s pockets. Desperate measures are called for now.
And the Black Opposition Project’s research sure is desperate.
Ed: Democrats are losing men across the board, and the debacle at the SOTU could accelerate that. The issue of illegal immigration has always been a sensitive one in black communities, and Democrats' reaction to Trump's challenge will make that even more troublesome with black men in particular.
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Boris Johnson:
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 26, 2026
The United States supplies 70% of NATO’s budget, 95% of NATO’s heavy lift capacity.
And depending on whether you believe that the French force de frappe actually works or not, the United States of America supplies 100% of Europe’s nuclear deterrent.
There’s… pic.twitter.com/7wVqtMkbXP
Ed: Amateurs discuss strategy and tactics. Professionals discuss logistics. Boris Johnson is a professional, but you don't have to be Von Clausewitz to recognize that NATO can't fight or deter any enemy without American participation. Europe could fix that over time, but they won't spend the money to do so, because that would mean dismantling their cradle-to-grave welfare states. The EU has no choice but to defer to American leadership.
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P.G. Sittenfeld at The Free Press: Federal agents were going to be in my driveway at 9 a.m. sharp on the morning of Thursday, November 19, 2020, and I was told not to be late.
Home was Cincinnati, but I would be starting the day in Cleveland, four hours away. My wife, Sarah, was finishing her medical residency at the Cleveland Clinic, and we were frequently back and forth between the two cities.
In order to not cut it close, I set my alarm clock for 3:30 a.m.
But setting my alarm didn’t matter. I never fell asleep. How could I? I had no idea what the feds were saying I had done—or what would happen next.
Ed: Be sure to read all of this. Sittenfeld got convicted from a public-corruption sting that seems to have missed the Supreme Court ruling in the McDonnell case that requires explicit quid pro quos. His case is before the Supreme Court now, but Sittenfeld has gone through hell, and it's not at all clear why ... other than a crusading FBI office, it seems.
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Reading a BBC piece on some CBS dust-up, and, uh, I have a question about this weird aside involving Bari Weiss. pic.twitter.com/b9vD99xFHu
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) February 26, 2026
Ed: What the hell, Auntie Beeb?
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National Catholic Register: A pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame is turning down a leadership appointment there after weeks of backlash that included more than a dozen U.S. bishops criticizing the school for its decision.
Mary Gallagher, the dean of the university’s Keough School of Global Affairs, wrote in an email on Feb. 26 that Professor Susan Ostermann “has decided not to move forward as director” of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
Gallagher said she was “grateful for [Ostermann’s] willingness to serve and for the thoughtfulness with which she approached this decision,” according to the email, a copy of which was obtained by EWTN News.
Ed: Via LifeNews. Glad to see Notre Dame belatedly recalling its mission as a Catholic university.
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You all politicized it.
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) February 26, 2026
What is amusing is you don't understand the lasting impact this is going to have on how people view how you cover American sports.
It is forever tarnished. https://t.co/sL1Ad9Bnnz
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WSJ: The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year, according to people familiar with the matter, financial troubles that contributed to the company’s decision to cut its staff by 30% earlier this month.
The Post lost roughly $100 million in 2024 and $77 million in 2023. ...
In their first major presentation since the layoffs, acting Chief Executive and Publisher Jeff D’Onofrio and Executive Editor Matt Murray held a staff meeting Wednesday in which they described years of overspending and declining productivity.
D’Onofrio told newsroom staff that expenses surpassed revenue between 2022 and 2025 because the company had hired hundreds of staffers in the years prior, according to people in attendance. He didn’t detail the depth of the losses at the meeting.
The number of news stories published by the Post has fallen by 42% since 2020, while newsroom costs were 16% higher in 2025 compared with 2020, D’Onofrio said.
Ed; Paying more, getting less, and readers are bailing. Remind me why we should sympathize with the workers who delivered these results? Especially when the product itself was corrupt and unreliable?
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NEW: Black woman appalled after a young white Democrat voter suggested minorities don't know how to obtain an ID.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 26, 2026
White man: An act like the SAVE Act is very likely more aimed at voter suppression... [like] minority demographics.
Black woman: To say that it would… pic.twitter.com/uyv4tmPM6z
Ed: The paternalism is calling from inside the house! The paternalism is calling from inside the house! This is almost right out of "Annie Hall" and the scene about Marshall McLuhan.
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AP via Yahoo: A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345 million in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago, a figure the environmental group contends it cannot pay. ...
In a financial filing made late last year, Greenpeace USA said it doesn’t have the money to pay the $404 million ordered by the jury “or to continue normal operations if the judgment is enforced.” The group said it had cash and cash equivalents of $1.4 million and total assets of $23 million as of Dec. 31, 2024.
Greenpeace declined to comment on the judge's Tuesday filing, but Greenpeace USA interim general counsel Marco Simons reiterated that the organization couldn't afford the judgment.
Ed: If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
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The friendzoning heard ‘round the world https://t.co/H30GfjN6XB
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 26, 2026
Ed: MK owes me a new monitor.
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